Facilitating Health Futures: Designing and Leading for Emergence
Facilitating Health Futures: Designing and Leading for Emergence
Starts January 22, 2026 · Every second Wednesday 12–1:30 PM (EST)
4-session live online series | $500 CAD | Limited to 12 participants
The future of leadership isn’t about control — it’s about hosting emergence.
Facilitating Health Futures is a 4-session professional learning series for leaders, educators, and facilitators who work in the complex realities of health, care, and social systems.
We’ll explore how design, futures, and complexity thinking can help us lead differently: not by managing complexity away, but by engaging with it creatively and relationally.
Through interactive dialogue, reflective exercises, and live facilitation, participants will:
Learn how to design and host spaces that invite emergence.
Use futures and imagination tools to expand what’s possible.
Integrate multiple ways of knowing (self, system, relationship, and context).
Cultivate presence and reflexivity as core leadership practices.
🗓 Sessions Jan 22 · Feb 5 · Feb 19 · Mar 5 (2026)
🗓 Feedback Mar 19 (2026)
🕛 Wednesdays 12:00–1:30 PM (EST)
💻 Online, live sessions only
💲 $400 CAD | Small cohort (max 12 participants)
Pilot rate in exchange for feedback on the offering
For leaders and facilitators ready to work with — not against — complexity.
Facilitator
Sean Park PhD, MA, BHSc
Principal – Map and Territory
Assistant Professor (Part-Time)
McMaster University
Department of Medicine
Dr. Sean Park is a seasoned educator, consultant, and facilitator specializing in helping people and organizations navigate challenges and opportunities with strategy, change, and learning. With a PhD in Education, his academic foundation is in understanding how to design effective, transformative educational experiences. As the founder and principal of Map & Territory, a learning and development consultancy, his work focuses on blending futures thinking, systems practice, and design thinking to help teams imagine new possibilities and make impact.
At McMaster University, he is an Assistant Professor (Part-Time) in the Department of Medicine’s Division of Education and Innovation, where he teaches courses on health design and strategic foresight. He was also the academic director of a simulation-based health leadership program with the Health Leadership Academy and co-leads the Health x Design program with the University of Toronto’s Temerty School of Medicine.
Sean has worked with Stanford University's d.school as an Alum-in-Residence, where he supported university educators on applying design thinking to real-world challenges. He has also taught design thinking with McGill University, the University of Toronto, and as part of his consulting practice, where he develops and delivers design thinking and foresight curriculum to organizations for capacity development.
Dr. Park is an award-winning educator, having received the 2024 McMaster President’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teaching and Learning. He was also part of a team that won the national Alan Blizzard award for collaborative course development from the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. These accolades demonstrate his expertise in building effective, collaborative learning experiences, which is a key part of his approach.
His approach, which is described as warm, imaginative, and rigorously curious, is well-suited to the development of applied learning opportunities. He is grounded in his ability to help organizations and their members to confidently approach new skills, including those related to AI, and lead their communities into a future of empowered capabilities.